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CYCLE SADDLE Patented Oct. 11, 1892.

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CYCLE SADDLE No. 484,290. Patnted Oct. 11,1892.

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JOl-lN BOULTBEE BROOKS, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

CYCLE-SADDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,290, dated October 11,1892.

Application filed April 8, 1892- Serial No. 428,367. (No model.) Patented in England April 20 1888, No. 5,868; April 13, 1891. No. 6,233; December 3, 1891. No. 21,109, and March 16, 1892,110. 5,180.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known thatI, J OHN BOULTBEE BROOKS, manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Great Charles Street, in the city of Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cycle-Saddles, (for which invention Letters Patent have been granted to me in Great Britaimdated March 16, 1892, No. 5,180; December 3, 1891,N0. 21,109; April 13, 1891, No. 6,283, and April 20,1888, No. 5,868,) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

This invention relates to detail improvements in the trainings and fittings of cyclesaddles.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents, partly in longitudinal vertical section and partly in elevation, a constant-tension hammock cycle-saddle constructed, arranged, and fittedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is an underside plan of the framing of the same. Fig. 2 is a section of the joint part of the upper end of the pillar or supplementary spring. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the L-pin boss upon the dotted lines A B, Fig. 1.

The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figs. 1 to 3.

a is the seat of the saddle, suspended or supported upon nearly-parallel and horizontally-directed framing-rods, which are marked at rear and front by letters 0 c These suspension or framing rods, which are in double order, as represented in plan, and running nearly parallel under the seat of the saddle, have loop-coiled springs; disposed a little rear of the L-pin boss 1', by means of which latter, as hereinafter described, the saddle is secured by a claw attachment to the L-pin 71 of a machine. The rear ends of the said rods of the parts 0 are turned upward into hookshaped brackets c, terminated by eye-loops 0 which take upon hanging pins'o, depending from the back under framing of the saddle-seat. Above and below the said eyed loops 0 are rear cushioning expedients in the form of india-rubber blocks m, and with the whole kept up to their positions and to their bearings by nuts 0', taking upon the ends of hanging pins 0. The front ends of the parts c of the framing-rods are turnedinto loopcoils 0 with the terminations of the rods forming them bent slightly inward and up Ward into curved brackets 0 having a returned part or loop a which is embraced by the hook i of a hooked tension-pin Z, passing through a plain hole k of a hanging bracket 70, and which tension-pin is adjusted by the rotation of a screw-nut 7t taking on the end of the pin located at the back of the bracket is.

Located rearward of the bracket-arms c and loop 0 and disposed between the under side of the bracket 7t, and the fore part of the frame-rod c is a vertically-directed pillarcoiled spring 19, secured at its lower end to a bridge-bracket c by a pin 0 and at its upper end jointly connected to the bracket 76 by a depending part (see Fig. 2 taking into a hole 19 of a seating 13 surmounting the-said springp. Hence thejointed connection. Before the connection of the loop-coiled bracket 0 c is made with the hook Z the said bracket or bracket-arms come considerably forward of their acting position, so that on making the connection the coils of the loops 0 are slightly contracted or wound up by bringing the said bracket or bracket-arms into an upright position, as shown. Hence a constant tensioning.

The supplementary upright pillar-coiled spring 19 supports the fore' part of the saddle, and the seat thereby is prevented from sagging, as is common with hammock-saddles as ordinarily suspended.

The L-pin bosst, which is segmental in construction, atfixes both the saddle-iron or L-pin h and also itself to the base framing-rods by the screwing home of a single screw-pin, as hereinafter described. Thus the L-pin boss iconsists of a middle part 1 with neck i Wherethrough a clamping screw-pin i up Wardly passes, with its extreme end impinging upon the saddle-iron or L-pin h. The upper terminal ends of the said sectional middle part have inverted claws with semicircular recesses 6 which embrace the base vation at Fig.7.

framing-rods a The middlepart consists of a section having opposite under bearing sides 1 with gaps 1 middle solid part i", and saddle-iron or L-pin bearing 2' The placing of the said embracing parts i d around the frame-rods c and the passingof the horizontal limb of the saddle iron or L-pinhthrough the recess 2' formed between the sections, as aforesaid, the screwing home of the screw or set pin 2' aflixes rigidly the said saddle to the L-pin or saddle-iron.

It is understood that the framing-rods and springs are in double order.

Fig. 4 represents a haminock saddle withrear cushioning expedients, having a plain or dissimilar-shaped framing. Fig. 5 is an inverted plan of the fore part of the same. a is the seat of the saddle. m are rear end cushioning expedients; c c, framing rods which are in double order; (5, a double loopcoil; 2', L-pin boss; h, the L-pin. The rear looped ends 0 of the framing-rods come be tween the threaded rubber blocks or cushioning expedients m m, which are threaded lippn screw-pins 0, hanging from the under side of the after end of the saddle. The fore part of the said framing-rods is shaped alike unto a sleigh-runner c and has a looped end 0 which takes over a hooked end Z and a tensionscrew Z, which takes through the plain hole of a hanging bracket 7c and is adjusted by a screw-nut is.

Fig. 6 represents a modified foriu of a saddle provided with rubber-cushioned rear end connections. a is the seat of the saddle; b, the frame-rods; m m, rubber pads or rear cushioned end connections or cushioning expedients, with washers m upon either side of them. at is an H-shaped bracket with branch end loops '21 n the upper ones it of which come between the padsm of the upperseries, and with the lower one 01. coming upon the upper pad m of the lower series, while the end loop 0 of the base framing-rods 0 c; with a loop-coil 0 come between both of the rubber pads m of the lower series, and which series are in double'order, as shown in back elet' is the L-pin boss, and h the L-pin, c the front loop-coiled springs, and c the bracket end.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new is- 1. In a cycle-saddle,suspendingorsupporting the seat of the same from frame-rods c 0 having loops c c and bracket 0 in combination with rubber cushioning-blocks m, as set forth.

2. In a cycle-saddle, combining with. the rear end framing 'n of the same rubber blocks m, as set forth in Figs. 6 and 7.

3. In a hammock cycle-saddle, the combination, with the frame-rods c a and bracket or fore part c", of a pillar-coiled spring 29, located between the front under side of the seat of the saddle and the base framing-rods rear of the said front or bracket part 0 as set forth.

4. In a hammock cycle-saddle, the combination, with the seat and framing-rods, of a supplemental erect pillar-coiled spring 1), disposed rear of the front of the said framingrods, as set forth.

5. In a hammock cycle'saddle, the combination, with the seat of the same, of a tensionpin Z, having hooked end 1, as set forth.

6. In a hammock cyclesaddle, the combination, with the framing-rods 0 having expedients m, body-coils c and looped front looped ends c 0 fitted with rubber cushioning coils c having bracket-arms 0 a, connected by a tension-screw pin Z1 carried by abracket k k and secured by a nut of a supplemental pillar-coiled spring 19, located between the bracket is of the frame-rods c and connected at top by a joint 70 19 19 and at bottom supported by and attached to a bridgebrao'ket c", as set forth.

7. In a hammock cycle-saddle, the combi I nation, with the supplemental spring 19, of a spring bracket arm or arms 0 situated forward of the said spring and adapted to pull or keep on stretch the seat of the saddle by its outwardtension, as set forth.

8. In saddle-iron or L-pin bosses, the combination, with rod-trainings and L-pins, of clawed and gapped sections, with set-screw passing up a neck of the middle one of them, as set forth, whereby the screwing up of the said set-screw affixes the boss to the framingrods and the saddle to the L-piu.

9. In saddle-iron or L-pin bosses, the combination, with rod-framings and L-pins, of clawed and gapped sections, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of March, 1892.

JOHN BOULTBEE BROOKS.

Witnesses:

HENRY SKERRETT, ARTHUR T. SADLER,

Both of Birmingham. 

